Fact-checkers busy after Trump's speech: Opinionline

Donald Trump goes on a blistering offensive against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday, calling her disqualified to run for president and savaging her record on trade, foreign policy, human rights and immigration.
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What people are saying about Trump's bristling attack on Hillary.

Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show: “So Trump basically said things about Hillary Clinton that you just do not hear Republicans saying. You have heard them before. ... You just do not hear Mitt Romney say this, for example. You would not hear the Bush family talk this way about Hillary. You would not. You just would not hear it.

You would not hear fellow establishment types talk about this, because it is too close to home for all of them. But Trump can say this stuff as an outsider. He can say this stuff as a nonmember of the elite or the establishment.”

E. J. Dionne on Twitter: “#Trump promised to create jobs. This speech is part of that promise, creating lots of employment for fact-checkers.”

Samantha Bee on Twitter: “We’re playing the ‘rigged’ drinking game. Haven’t been this blasted since the Nevada caucus. #TrumpSpeech.”

James Kirkpatrick, VDARE.com: “Trump alleged the Clintons have a long history with cultivating relationships with foreign nations and donors for their own personal benefit.

But most importantly for patriots, Trump also framed the 2016 election as a confrontation between nationalism and globalism. Point by point, he slammed Hillary’s ‘globalist’ agenda on foreign policy, trade, and immigration.

Hard to find anything to disagree with here. So what is the mainstream media’s reaction? Ignoring the speech.”

Amanda Marcotte, Salon: “Donald Trump’s long-awaited speech Wednesday supposedly detailing the dirt he has on Hillary Clinton turned out to be exactly what critics expected: A diatribe of right-wing paranoia seemingly cribbed off all-caps email forwards sent to you by your grandfather. Much of it assumed an audience that already has spent years poring over anti-Clinton urban legends and that gets almost all its news from the Drudge Report.

It is also a fact-checking nightmare, a garbage truck of lies, misinformation, and conspiracy theories. It’s as if Trump is trying to overwhelm the fact-checkers with so many lies they simply give up.”

Zack Beauchamp, Vox: Trump takes a ridiculously narrow view of how the world works. ... His basic argument is that if a bad thing happened in the world and Clinton was alive during it, she’s the one who caused it.”